The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is pleased to announce 13 selections in response to the Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Core Technology Research and Product Development Funding Opportunity Announcements (Round 4). These selections are anticipated to significantly contribute to the goal of the SSL program:
By 2025, develop advanced solid-state lighting technologies that, compared to conventional lighting technologies, are much more energy efficient, longer lasting, and cost competitive by targeting a product system efficiency of 50 percent with lighting that accurately reproduces sunlight spectrum.
Five selections have been made in response to Core Technology Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-PS26-07NT43130, and two selections in response to National Laboratory Call DE-PS26-07NT43170. These selections are expected to fill key technology gaps, provide enabling knowledge or data, and represent a significant advancement in the SSL technology base. The total value of selections for Core Technology Research is $10.8 million; the performers of cooperative agreements will provide 20 percent as cost-share.
Six selections have been made in response to Product Development FOA DE-PS26-07NT43131. These selections are focused on the development or improvement of commercially viable materials, devices, or systems. Technical activities are focused on a targeted market application with fully defined price, efficacy, and other performance parameters necessary for success of the proposed product. The total value of Product Development selections is $17.1 million; the performers will provide an average of 32 percent as cost-share.
All 13 new selections are covered under the Exceptional Circumstances Determination issued by DOE in June 2004. The selections are listed below (subject to negotiation).
Core Technology Research Selections
Recipient: Add-Vision Inc.
Title: Low Cost, High Efficiency Polymer OLEDs based on Stable p-i-n Device Architecture
Team Members: University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Santa Cruz
Summary: This project seeks to develop a polymer OLED (P-OLED) lamp technology using advanced material synthesis and a modified device architecture to enable large-scale manufacturing of robust P-OLED lamps.
Recipient: Crystal IS Inc.
Title: GaN-ready aluminum nitride substrates for cost-effective, very low dislocation density III-nitride LEDs
Team Members: Philip Lumileds Lighting Company, LLC
Summary: This project seeks to develop GaN ready substrates with defect densities below 105/cm-2. This GaN ready substrate will then be tested by growing high efficiency blue LEDs.
Recipient: Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Fundamental Studies of Higher Efficiency III-N LEDs for High-Efficiency High-Power Solid-State Lighting
Team Members: Luminus Devices
Summary: This project seeks to understand in a fundamental way the impact of strain, defects, polarization, and Stokes loss in relation to unique device structures upon the internal quantum efficiency of LEDs and to employ this understanding in the design and growth of high-efficiency LEDs capable of highly reliable, high-current, high-power operation.
Recipient: Lehigh University
Title: Enhancements of Radiative Efficiency with Staggered InGaN Quantum Well Light Emitting Diodes
Summary: This project seeks to solve the problem of low radiative efficiency in green LEDs which is caused by a reduced wave function overlap from the existence of polarization field inside the quantum well.
Recipient: PhosphorTech Corporation
Title: High Extraction Luminescent Materials for Solid State Lighting
Summary: This project seeks to develop highly efficient phosphors for high brightness LEDs. The proposed phosphors have broad and size-tunable absorption bands, size and impurity tuned emission bands, size-driven elimination of scattering effects, and a distinct separation between absorption and emission bands.
National Laboratory Call Selections for Core Technology Research
Recipient: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title: Charge Balance in Blue Electrophosphorescent Devices
Summary:This project seeks to develop new organic phosphine oxide electron transporting/hole blocking materials in combination with ambipolar phosphine oxide host materials for achieving charge balanced blue phosphorescent OLED system, a necessary component of white OLEDs.
Recipient: Sandia National Laboratories
Title: Novel Defect Spectroscopy of InGaN Materials for Improved Green LEDs
Summary: This project seeks to develop a novel defect spectroscopy platform centered around deep level optical spectroscopy (DLOS) capable of interrogating deep levels throughout the InGaN band gap.
Product Development Selections
Recipient: Arkema Inc.
Title: Application of Developed APCVD Transparent Conducting Oxides and Undercoat Technologies for Economical OLED Lighting
Team Members: Philips Lighting
Summary: This project seeks to develop a commercially viable process for an OLED substrate. The substrate would consist of the actual substrate of soda lime glass, a barrier undercoat and, a transparent conducting oxide (TCO).
Recipient: Cree Inc.
Title: Efficient White SSL Component for General Illumination
Summary: This project seeks to develop a high-efficiency, low cost LED component for solid-state illumination applications that is capable of replacing standard, halogen, fluorescent and metal halide lamps based on the SSL system efficiency and life time cost savings.
Recipient: General Electric
Title: Affordable High-Efficiency Solid-State Replacement Down-Light Luminaries with Novel Cooling
Team Members: GE Lumination, University of Maryland
Summary: This project seeks to develop an illumination quality solid-state lighting (SSL) luminaire based on LED cooling using synthetic jets combined with optimized system packaging and electronics.
Recipient: Osram Sylvania Development Inc.
Title: High Quality Down Lighting Luminaire with 73% Overall System Efficiency
Summary: This project seeks to develop a highly efficient integrated down lighting luminaire that minimizes thermal, optical and electronic losses and will achieve a luminous steady state output of 1300lm with a high quality of light.
Recipient: Philips Lumileds Lighting, LLC
Title: 135 LPW 1050 Lm Warm White LED for illumination
Summary: This project seeks to develop pre-production prototypes of a warm white LED that has efficiency of 135LPW while at the same time generating 1050lm of warm white light in the Correlated Color Temperature range between 2800K and 3500K with a Color Rendering Index of greater than 90.
Recipient: Universal Display Corporation
Title: Development of High Efficacy, Low Cost Phosphorescent OLED Lighting Luminaire
Team Members: Armstrong World Industries, University of Michigan, University of Southern California.
Summary: This project seeks to develop high efficiency OLED lighting luminaires as part of an integrated ceiling illumination system.